Fono

v0.15.0 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 21d AI Agents & Assistants

✓ No known CVEs patched

✓ No known CVEs patched in this version

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Summary

AI summary

macOS support (Apple Silicon) adds dictation, voice assistant, menu‑bar icon, hotkeys, text injection and GPU‑accelerated transcription.

Full changelog

macOS support (Apple Silicon, experimental). Fono now runs on
macOS: dictation, the voice assistant, local and cloud providers,
a native menu-bar icon with the full menu, the on-screen recording
indicator, global hotkeys (no special permission needed), text
injection at the cursor, and local text-to-speech. Releases attach a
single Metal-accelerated aarch64-apple-darwin binary — GPU
transcription is ~4× faster than CPU at almost no size cost, so
there is no separate CPU download. fono install sets everything up
per-user (no sudo): an app bundle, start-at-login, and a guided
one-time permissions flow — the microphone and Accessibility grants
are keyed to a stable local signature, so they survive every
fono update instead of breaking after each one. Caveat: the port
was developed and verified on a headless remote Mac; on-screen
behaviour (menu bar, overlay, permission prompts) has not yet been
eyeballed on a physical display. If you have an Apple Silicon Mac,
giving it a try and filing an issue with what you find — good or
bad — would genuinely help; see docs/build-macos.md for what's
been checked so far.